🎬 Lead Video Editor IELVE012
Job Snapshot
Own the editing function. Build the team. Raise the standard.
This is not a traditional video editor role.
The Lead Video Editor is responsible for producing winning video ads while simultaneously building the team, systems, and quality infrastructure that allow winning ads to be produced at scale.
You will lead the editing department end-to-end—developing editors, improving workflows, holding the quality bar, and ensuring the editing function becomes stronger every quarter.
If you're looking for a role where you simply edit videos and clear tasks from a queue, this isn't it.
If you want to build a department, develop people, and directly influence creative performance, keep reading.
About the Company
We're a performance-driven marketing organization focused on producing high-performing creative at scale.
Creative output is one of the biggest growth levers in the business, and the editing team sits at the center of that engine.
We believe great creative performance comes from more than talented individuals. It comes from strong systems, clear standards, continuous improvement, and a team that understands what wins.
This role exists to build and lead that function.
The Role Overview
This role exists to lead the video editing department so that winning video ads are produced consistently, editors improve over time, and the editing operation becomes increasingly scalable and effective.
You will operate as a player-coach:
- Producing high-quality video ads yourself
- Hiring, coaching, and managing editors
- Owning editing workflows and SOPs
- Holding the final quality standard
- Driving operational improvements across the department
Success is measured by the performance of the editing function—not just your personal output.
Responsibilities
You will be accountable for:
1. Building and Leading the Editing Team
- Hire, onboard, train, and develop video editors
- Create performance standards, scorecards, and development plans
- Deliver direct, actionable coaching that improves editor capability
- Address performance issues quickly and professionally
- Build a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement
2. Owning the Editing Operating System
- Design, improve, and maintain workflows, SOPs, and quality processes
- Manage asset organization, review systems, approval flows, and version control
- Turn recurring problems into documented solutions
- Remove operational bottlenecks before they impact output
3. Holding the Quality Bar
- Review and approve all creative output before launch
- Maintain standards across pacing, hooks, storytelling, captions, music, branding, and technical delivery
- Catch quality drift early and correct it quickly
- Balance speed and quality without sacrificing either
4. Coaching for Creative Performance
- Train editors on winning creative patterns
- Share lessons from successful and unsuccessful ads
- Develop editors' creative judgment and pattern recognition
- Bridge the gap between creative strategy and final execution
5. Owning Department Outcomes
- Improve throughput, hit rate, quality, and delivery consistency
- Track editor performance and identify trends early
- Diagnose root causes when metrics decline
- Create action plans that improve department performance
6. Driving Cross-Functional Reliability
- Coordinate effectively with Creative Strategists, Media Buyers, Designers, and UGC teams
- Ensure smooth handoffs and communication
- Represent editing needs and insights across the broader marketing system
7. Continuously Improving the Operation
- Evaluate new workflows, tools, and AI-assisted processes
- Increase efficiency without lowering standards
- Improve quality, throughput, and team capability quarter over quarter
What Success Looks Like
You're succeeding in this role when:
- The editing team consistently produces winning video ads
- Editors are visibly stronger six months from now than they are today
- Quality standards remain high while output increases
- Bottlenecks disappear through better systems and workflows
- Hit rates improve over time
- Cross-functional teams trust editing to deliver reliably
- Leadership rarely needs to ask what's happening because you already have the answers and a plan
Most importantly:
The editing department operates at a higher level every quarter than it did the quarter before.
Required Experience
Seniority Level: Senior Leadership
This role requires both creative excellence and operational leadership.
You should have:
- Proven experience leading video editors or creative production teams
- Strong direct-response or performance marketing editing experience
- Demonstrated success producing high-performing video ads
- Experience building workflows, SOPs, and scalable systems
- Strong coaching and performance management skills
- Ability to make difficult quality and personnel decisions
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities
- Strong ownership mentality and comfort operating autonomously
Tools / Environment
You will regularly work with:
- Professional video editing software
- Frame.io or equivalent review platforms
- Asset management systems
- Creative workflow and project management tools
- AI-assisted editing and production tools
- Internal reporting and performance systems
Specific tools matter less than your ability to improve the operation as a whole.
Compensation & Benefits
Compensation
$2000-$3000 + bonus
Benefits
Our top editors are currently earning $1,000–$2,000+ per month in bonuses, with performance incentives based on 2.5% of ad spend.
Benefits and structure will be discussed during the interview process.
Hiring Process
- Application Review
- Initial Interview
- Leadership & Creative Evaluation
- Practical Assessment / Test Task
- Final Interview
- Offer
We move decisively and respect candidates' time.
Who Thrives Here
You'll thrive if you:
- Naturally take ownership of outcomes
- Care deeply about quality and standards
- Enjoy developing people, not just producing work
- Think in systems, not just tasks
- Notice problems before others do
- Give clear, direct feedback
- Constantly look for ways to improve processes
- Balance creativity with operational discipline
- Want to build something larger than your own individual output
Who Will Struggle Here
This role is likely not a fit if you:
- Prefer being an individual contributor only
- Avoid difficult conversations or accountability
- Need constant direction from leadership
- Resist systems, documentation, or process improvement
- Focus solely on creative execution without considering business outcomes
- Prefer maintaining the status quo over continuous improvement
🚀 Application CTA
If you're excited to lead an editing department, develop world-class editors, build scalable creative systems, and take ownership of creative performance at scale:
Apply here: https://forms.gle/qethF7ByXDzgh7Rf6
We're not hiring someone to manage an editing queue.
We're hiring the leader responsible for building the editing function.
Please note: due to the volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
